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Patented June 17, 1890.

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CHARLES H. FARMER, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,;70, dated June 17, 1890*.

Application filed February 28, 1890. Serial No. 342,057. (No model.)

.To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. FARMER, of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanyin drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to the class of buckles and clasps in which the web is held between two connected parts of the frame, which seize it frictionally, or by means of blunt serrations, without penetrating through it, and a hook is provided for attachment and detachment of a ring connected to the button hole straps.

The peculiar feature of my present invention is the permanent pivotal connection at one point or axis of the front plate and back frame (which, with their respective serrations and cross-bar, form the clasp) and the swinging hook, which engages the ring of the but ton-hole straps. These three essential parts, radiating thus from a common center, give to the buckle when open or unelasped a Y form, which is characteristic and distinctive. The front plate is of thin sheet metal rolled rearwardly at its lower edge to form, near each end thereof, bearings for the wire back frame and midway of such lower edge bearings for the wire hook,the extremities of the wires of which such frame and heck are formed entering such bearings and occupying therein a coincident-axial position, the hook-trunnions lying between the trunnions of said frame. The back frame is of a generally rectangular form, its end portions bent so as to have some elasticity and its side waved to engagewith the reamvardly-rolled upper edge of the front plate opposite the bearings. The back frame has a cross-bar and the front plate a series of serrations, preferably integral with and punctured from such plate, between which and the cross-bar the web is held when the clasp is engaged.

In the drawings, Figures 1 and 5 are front elevations, and Fig. 3 a rear view, of my improved buckle applied to a suspendenweb as in use. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Figs. at and 0 are perspective views of two forms of the buckle opened out or unclasped, and Fig. 7 an end view showing the Y form thereof.

The front plate A is of polishedsheet metal or of equivalent: material, as celluloid or hard rubber, and is shown notched at each corner and turned rearwardly at each edge. This rearward rolling at the lower edge forms an elongated bearing B for the wire back frame 0 and the wire hook I), the framejonrnals entering the ends of this bearing and the hook-journals occupying its central portion. This construction gives to the clasp and hook a common axis. which secures simplicity, compactness, and cheapness. The back frame is of spring-wire and bent to engage with the upper edge of the front plate, preferably by the slight waves or corrugations c. This frame has a cross-bar E, secured to its ends and co-operating with serrations F on the front plate to seize the web G of the suspender and hold it frietionallyor by compression when the upper edges of the frame 0 and plate A are engaged. The clasp is readily released for longitudinal adjustment. along the web by pressing rearwardly against the corrugated part c of the frame. The serrations F appear on the rear face of the front plate and are preferably integral therewith. Two such forms are shown, one in Fig. 6, where the teeth are formed along the downward ly-turnededge of the plate prolonged, and the other and better form in Figs. 1, 2., and 4, where the teeth are punctured in V shape from the body of the plate, with their points bent rearwardly along a line about opposite the cross-bar E.

I claim as my invention 1. A buckle consisting of a front plate provided with a web-holding rear surface and a spring-wire back frame pivoted to the lower edge and engaging with the upper edge of said plate, and having an intermediate crossbar to press upon the web, in combination with a swinging wire hook having its trunnions between and coincident with the pivots of the back frame, substantially as set for h.

2. A buckle having a broad front plate with integral teeth, a wire back frame with crossbar co-operating therewith to hold. the Web, and a swinging hook depending therefrom,

said three members having one common piv- In testimony whereof I have signed my otal axis, substantially as set forth. name to this specification, in the presence of 3. The described improved buckle, contwo subscribing witnesses, on this 4th day of sisting of the front plate rolled rearwardly at February, A. D. 1890. 5 its lower edge to form bearings and punctured to form integral rearward teeth, in colnbina- CHARLES H. FARMER. tion with a wire hook and with a spring-wire back frame pivoted in said bearings, eng'ag- Vitnesses: ing with the upper edge of said plate and JAMES P. PRINCE, 10 having a cross-bar co-operating with said A. H. SPENCER.

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